The infinite exchangeable graph law: existence and uniqueness (brick A2) #
Every exchangeable graph law extends uniquely to a probability law on the infinite graph space — a specialized Kolmogorov extension proved from compactness, with no general projective-limit machinery:
InfiniteGraph.restrictFin_padFin_of_le— padding then restricting to a lower level is restriction alongFin.castLE;Graphon.ExchangeableGraphLaw.paddedLaw— the level-nlaw pushed forward throughpadFin, a probability measure onInfiniteGraph; its level-krestriction is exactlyL.law kfor everyk ≤ n(paddedLaw_map_restrictFin, by consistency);Graphon.ExchangeableGraphLaw.infiniteLaw— the infinite law: a Prokhorov subsequential limit of the padded laws. Weak convergence against the continuous finite restrictions identifies every marginal (infiniteLaw_map_restrictFin), and finite-restriction measure extensionality gives uniqueness (unique_of_map_restrictFin/eq_infiniteLaw_of_map_restrictFin).
Brick A3 (exchangeability of infiniteLaw under every permutation of ℕ, and the
packaged equivalence with ExchangeableGraphLaw) builds on this.
Padding to level n and restricting to a lower level k is restriction along
Fin.castLE.
The padded law at level n: the n-vertex law, pushed forward to the infinite
graph space through padFin.
Equations
- L.paddedLaw n = ⟨MeasureTheory.Measure.map InfiniteGraph.padFin (L.law n).toMeasure, ⋯⟩
Instances For
The level-k restriction of the padded level-n law is exactly the k-vertex law,
for every k ≤ n (consistency along Fin.castLE).
Prokhorov extraction on the infinite graph space: every sequence of probability measures has a weakly convergent subsequence.
The marginal property has at most one solution (finite-restriction measure extensionality).
Existence of the infinite law: a Prokhorov subsequential limit of the padded laws has every finite restriction equal to the corresponding marginal.
The infinite exchangeable graph law (specialized Kolmogorov extension via compactness): the unique probability law on the infinite graph space whose finite restrictions are the given marginals.
Equations
- L.infiniteLaw = ⋯.choose
Instances For
The marginal identification: each finite restriction of the infinite law is the corresponding finite marginal.
Uniqueness: any probability law with the correct finite restrictions is the infinite law.
The infinite law determines the exchangeable law (injectivity of the extension): two exchangeable laws with the same infinite law are equal.